Age Quotes
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.Joseph Addison
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.Jean Paul Richte
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.Woody Allen
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.Euripides
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.B. J. Gupta
Comedy is tragedy plus time.Carol Burnett
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.Johnson
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.Friedrich Nietzsche
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.Judy Garland
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - Enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.Senator Soape
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.Kara Vichko
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.Trotsky
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.George Bernard Shaw
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.Jerome P. Fleishman
